Bobby Jones Quotes

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

I realize that's why we play golf, to hit the ball into the hole. But it is a strange feeling when you hit the shot and it actually goes in.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination. On every side we see big two-fisted he-men floundering round in three figures, stopping every few minutes to let through little shrimps with knock-knees and hollow cheeks, who are tearing up snappy seventy-fours.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.

Golf doesn't really have many big guys.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I don't fear death, but I sure don't like those three-footers for par.

Golf is an indispensable adjunct to high civilisation.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

I think the image of golfers is terrific, and rightly so.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

Golf is a weird sport. Some days you got it. Some days you don't.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

One of my great loves is golf. When I am in L.A., I like to play with a few close friends: no phones, no distractions, the great outdoors and the chance to bet some money to keep it interesting.

Golf's a great game, and you meet a lot of people along the way.

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.